Today, Bob Bell gleaned this insight:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:23:52PM -0400, Derek Martin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > text? Why should I, the recipient, be forced to launch some lame, bloated
> > application (microsoft or otherwise) just to read a five-line e-mail?
> >
> > In practice, the answer is, I don't. The e-mail goes unread. As did this
> > one.
>
> While I agree in principle, in this case you don't have to launch a
> lame, bloated application. Use OSS! In my case, mutt reads the email,
> invokes wvHtml on the attachment, w3m dumps the resulting HTML file to
> text, and mutt appends that to the message, which is then pageable as a
> whole within mutt. So it looks just like a text attachment. I almost
> didn't even noticed it was a Word attachment.
These apps sound interesting... I'll have to check them out. Though mutt
is out for me; all my mail is on IMAP servers. :(
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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